The New Alternative Legal Career
Paul Levy, Senior Consultant at Jameson Legal Tech, shared his candid view on how legal careers are evolving beyond the traditional lawyer track. Drawing on years of experience placing talent across law firms, in-house teams, and legal tech vendors, Levy mapped out where the opportunities are – and what skills today’s lawyers and law students […]
How Leaders can help steer successful transformations
In our live conversation last week, Leadership Strategist and former Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Alexia Maas, explored how legal leaders can steer meaningful transformation in an era of relentless change, AI disruption, and mounting regulatory complexity. The discussion ranged from strategy and simplification to AI, client value, rankings, and the next generation of legal […]
Ai’s a Risky Business!
This session, recorded live at the TLTF summit in Austin, Texas, brought together legal tech advisor Cheryl Wilson Griffin and our own Patricia Gannon to explore why AI is not just an innovation opportunity, but a live risk issue for law firms and legal organisations. From early legal tech to AI risk detective Wilson Griffin […]
Latest in US Legal Tech
US legal tech has moved from experiments to essentials. Firms are shifting from ad-hoc prompting to auditable AI-enabled workflows and agentic adoption, while clients increasingly expect “more for less.” Smaller, agile practices appear to be outpacing BigLaw on real implementations. Why it matters What we heard (themes & insights) 1) Adoption: from pilots to production […]
Arbitration Hearings: What, Why, and How?
Moderated by Professor Velimir Zivkovic (University of Warwick), this session of our International Arbitration Forum reframed the oral hearing as something more fundamental than a ceremony, the moment where credibility is tested, doubts are surfaced, and cases truly crystallise. The question was not whether hearings are traditional, but when they are necessary, and how best […]
How to Deal with Professional Disappointment?
This week, Patryk Zamorski, Leadership Consultant & Coach, confronted a universal reality of professional life: disappointment. From missed promotions and lost mandates to shifting market forces and restructuring, the session reframed setbacks as raw material for learning, growth, and connection, not verdicts on personal worth. From Shock to Strategy Zamorski proposed a simple mnemonic—REN—as a […]
Key Takeaways from ITech Conference UK
In this week’s session, Tomislav Pedišić, Managing Partner of VUKMIR, explored how ITech Law’s European meeting in London gathered more than 500 practitioners across 70+ jurisdictions, reflecting the profession’s appetite for face-to-face exchange and the resurgence of tech-focused mandates. Pedišić, an M&A and technology specialist, reported on two tracks ( namely Interactive Entertainment & Media […]
Sleepwalking into the Future
In our session live from the IBA in Toronto, Moray McLaren, co-founder of Lexington Consultants, and Mari Cruz Taboada, Partner at Lexington Consultants, examined whether law firms are “sleepwalking” into an AI-driven future. The conversation moved beyond tool talk to focus on pricing, profitability, leverage, governance, and culture, asking what changes if AI changes the […]
BD Highlights from the IBA Toronto
At the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Toronto, our live BD Forum yesterday explored how Business Development is redefining the legal industries success. Against the backdrop of an industry grappling with technology, competition, and cultural change, our live session gathered Moderators Rachel Kennedy, Barbara Koenen, Andrew Hutchinson and Charlotte Ford spoke about the role […]
Cultural Approaches in Arbitration: Is the Common/Civil Law Divide Real?
Mark McNeill, Barrister at Bricks Court Chambers and an international arbitration specialist with more than twenty-five years of experience in commercial and investment treaty disputes, joined our International Arbitration Forum today and examined how culture, legal tradition, and unconscious bias shape modern arbitral decision-making. His reflections positioned cultural awareness not as a soft skill but […]